2019/01/01 by Els Stronks · 1 voice
Arts and Humanities · #Digital Humanities and Scholarship
paper · doi:10.5117/tntl2019.4.009.stro
openalex publication_date 2019/01/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/01
As argued in this article, the digital analysis of literary texts could be enhanced by a closer connection between literary theories and digital techniques. Moretti tried to bridge the gap between the two, but did not fully succeed. Could a more systematic approach to what literary theory has to offer – explanatory hypotheses about the relations between textual structures, societal effects and intellectual shifts – and the requirements of analyses based on numbers (be it statistical patterns or other numeric patterns) help to make progress?